The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-09-24
UnriValed Water Power.

By an outlay of between one and two hum
dred thousand dollars, water mas been taken
fom the Platte river through Canal sixteen
miles long aud thirty feet wide, and brought
into the heart of the city. This furnishes a
magnificent water-power with seventy feet
fall within the city limits. Parties from Min.
ne apois are now placing Turbine wheels with
in zoe feet of the Canal, from which the water
is taken through 54-inch iron pipe to the
wheels. where the direct fall on the wheels
is sixty feet.
This immense power is to be utilized and
distributed from a line of shafts, and manu-.
facturers have engaged this power for vari-
Gus purposes. After four separate eXamina.
tions, by as many eminent and disinterested
hydraulic engineers from Denver and Mime
apolis, each reports that kearney has an Ex-
CELLENT AND PERMANENT WATER POWER.
The water-power can easily be increased
many fold.
starch, paper (both straw and of the finer
qualIties, well as many other msnufae-
tured articles in daily use, can be probably
made in Kearney. Canning factory would
pay good dividends from the start
A Pressed Brick manufactory is TO COM
mence business at once using the WATERPROOF
er.
a business point, and II ore espe cially as a
place for PROFITABLE INVESTMENT OF MONEY
REAL ESTATE " lille now low in price, is
rapidly advancing In value, and lnyee tments
made at this time cannot fail 10 return to the
investor quick and large profits.
THE PROPERTY TO BE SOLD.
A large tract of real estate origina ly re-
served from sale by the b. Il NJ. X. X. Com
pany, with the intention of laying it Off into
city lots when required, has now been pur-
chased, subdivided, and will be sold at public
auction, October IA and Is, by the Kearney
Land and Improvement Company, the mem
bership of which compris' BANKERS, mer-
chants, railroad men, and business men gem
orally, residents of the City OF Kearney.
This property is adjacent to Wyoming ave-
nue., Que of the principal thoroughfares of
the city, on which are located national banks
elevators, hotels, railroad stations, whole sale
houses, ETC.. etc
A ready our Board of School Directors have
purchased, for the erection of a fine brick
school house, an entire block of this property,
and fine resideI ces are now being erected
upon some of the lots.
The lots 10 be sold comprise about 800 man
ufHcturiDg sites. business and residence lots.
Kearney is IN the midst of as fine an agri-
cultural country as any in the United States,
and is to become the manufacturing center of
Nebraska and many States and Territories
adjacent.
When all the water power is employed in
manufacturing. the city will have pOpula-
ton of from fifty to one hundred thousand
people. What will the lots now offered for
sale be worth then? More thousands than you
now pay hundreds at this sale.
The kearney Land ana Improvement Com
pany have made arrangements by which you
can purchase tickets on all roads west of
Pittsburg and Cincinnati, good tor thfri days.
Plan your Western trip so as TO be With us
at Kearney. October IL aud Is.
Terms of eale: One-tourth ca b, balance in
one, two and three years, at six per cent inter-
est. cash discount of five per cent to all
purchasers who prefer TO pay all cash down.
For further particulars, plats and circulars
address ii. G. WILEY, Sec Y and Genl ManG-
ger Kearney Land and Improvement Co., or
GEO. W. FRANK, Manager of Kearney Canal
and Water Supply Co., Kearney, Neb.